Four Won and we didn’t cock it up against McCarthy’s DORITOS

Shortly after Wolves scored their consolation goal, their fans chanted rather ironically “4 nil and you cocked it all up”. Or something along those lines. It is good to know they have a sense of humour. Not that the supporters needed to illustrate that for me again.

When Doritos sponsored Wolves (the last time they were in the Premiership back in 2003) my History teacher at the time, a die hard Wolves fan, suggested an acronym for the tortilla chips brand. It stood for Division One Rubbish In Tatty Orange Shirts.

The pre-match talk from Molineux by their dictator Mick McCarthy was all about how they would attack and attack. Problem with his team was that although they endeavoured to cause us trouble in our defence, they crumbled when we barely got our passing game going.

I’ll admit there was a nervousness within me when I saw us start a little slower compared to Wednesday. However eight of those who started against AZ did the same here so it is unreasonable to expect game after game of high intensity right from the first second. The heart rate increased dramatically when I saw Diaby and not Song in tandem with Ramsey in the line up but it returned to normal as soon as I realised it was Wolverhampton that we were playing. These are the games where you have to change personnel just a little. It didn’t matter as Diaby was replaced by Alex and he and Aaron sang off the same hymn sheet keeping things ticking over in possession. (Yeah I know that middle bit of that was awful, I apologize).

Even the most perfect of sides have imperfections. Our vulnerability in defence, in the air/on set-pieces is well documented. How refreshing to see that our first goal came from a set-piece mistake. Fabregas’ corner had the right amount of curve for it to be re-directed by Zubar’s thigh. Having taken a few corners in my life, I can certainly testify to that.

Not good football? Well, not the worst from us either. They say attack is the best form of defense. They might do well to add, if you know HOW and WHEN to do it. After all, our second goal came on the counter after the break down of a Wolves attack.

It was Song who seized on a loose ball and couple of passes later it fell to Ramsey. In a few years time the Welshman will have enough confidence to carry on that blazing run and score himself. I’ve seen enough in cameo appearances to know he has the pace, the skill and finishing attributes to achieve that. In this game, just his second Premiership start, he took the not so senseless option by passing it to Eduardo. His chip hit Craddock and went in.  What did the message on Eduardo’s shirt say? Please do tell me because I couldn’t figure it out.

2-0 and we hardly broke sweat. I was feeling a little underwhelmed. Where was the breathtaking goal for me to drool over? I only had to wait 10 minutes for the answer to that question. Fabregas started and ended this move. He distributed the ball to Sagna who went on a Eboue-esque run (without the breakdown in possession). The Frenchman then crossed it to Van Persie whose telepathic touch found Fabregas and our skipper duly slotted it in. Something else to admire about that goal besides Cesc’ run, RVP’s touch and the eventual finish was that Sagna’s crossing has continued to improve.

The fourth goal came 25 minutes from the end. A corner from Fabregas was punched rather incompetently by the Wolves goalie and Arshavin instinctively managed to fire that ball to the bottom left corner. That goal was identical to the ones you concede when you play somebody who is awesome at Pro Evo or the Fifa games.

Wolves did score late enough, good header from Craddock. But that didn’t really make much difference in this game. In the end they made more mistakes than us and the sign of a top team is one that punishes those errors.

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